July 16, 2026

Good morning!

It’s Thursday. Today’s master of disguise was found relaxing on a dahlia leaf in the pot by the barn. Our friend is so clever that even the bug-identifying gods in my phone can’t decide what it is—the two top contestants being a differential grasshopper or an oak bush cricket. Same broad family, rather like a butterfly and a moth, but the similarities end there.

I went back outside to see if our salad-hued friend would tell us its name, but, alas, it was gone.

And so, as we often do here in Respitopia, we shall let the mystery be.

“A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.”

—John Ciardi

Onwards we go,

Clara